Non-English keyboard characters ??""""?..?.????????

I am getting the following characters and have no way to change them back to the correct ones
for colon I get ?
for forward slash I get ?
for greater than sign I get "
for less than sign I get '
for back slash I get ?
for curly bracket I get ?
etc.
there are more but you get the picture.
Is there any way to set the keboard back to it?s factory settings?

NO PC stated at all , just 36 years of HP productionNO OS stated, XP , VISTA, what?
no when or how you get those characters. ? "doing what?"

looks like a very old COMPAQ, square, PC, Laptop
most those are in the dumps now, parts hard to find, extreme.
are you running HP notepad.? program, ?

does it type wrong characters in notepad.
1: XP (is it) is infected. as all are... now... endless bad, here.
2: the keyboard has stuck keys. so it's bad ,kbd.
3: the XP is setup to some foreign language, and looks odd.
for example japanees , not english , so change it back.?
4: PC has hardware problem deeper like low power supplies ,etc.

does it run ok with the old now useless battery pack removed. be 1st step in all case of LT failures.

does it run ok with a free linux CD booted
yes/.no. if yes, XP is bad.
no then hardware bad.
5min work there and BAM answer.

It is in a particular file or everywhere you are typing? if everywhere u are tping then press (function key ) fn+Numlock key for laptop. it will be correct if it is in a particular file then check the file format and another editor for opening the file.

Try reinstalling the driver for the keyboard. If that doesn't work try the keyboard on another computer. If the same thing happens you probably have a faulty keyboard and will need to replace it. If not, check for a more updated version of the driver at the manufacturers website.

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Solution 1 - Permanent OFF (windows 7)
Go to Start menu > Devices and Printers
Right click on HP Wireless Keyboard and Mouse Kit (yours may have slightly different name)
Left click on Region and Language
Left click on Change Keyboards button
Under General tab go to > Default Input Language section > select English (Canada)-US
Under General tab, now go to > Installed Services section > Keyboard heading > click on item for Canadian French then click the Remove button on the right,
Repeat step 6 to remove line item Canadian Multilingual Standard
Click Apply button at the bottom of window, then click OK button to get out of the window, click OK to get out of final window
Close your Devices and Printers window and you are done FOREVER with the unwanted characters! :smileyhappy:

Solution 2 - Temporary toggle between special/normal characters
If it's like mine, the default keyboard setting requires you to do the following:
press hold left ctrl+shift, then tap right shift key, this should toggle between the special characters and back to the normal characters when steps are repeated.

keep searching 'setting'
language option always comes with A
Changing keyboard language
You can choose between a wide variety of languages, layouts and regions for your keyboard, so you can find the appropriate letters, characters, symbols and abbreviations. Your phone also offers word suggestions and spelling corrections based on the language you choose.

On Start, flick left to the App list, then tap Settings > Keyboard.

Select all the languages you'd like to be able to use from your keyboard.
The next time you use your keyboard, you'll see a button next to the Space bar that indicates which language you're currently using on your keyboard.

Tap the button to switch between all the languages you've selected. For example, if you usually use a US English keyboard, tap the ENU button, and the keyboard switches to the next language you've selected.

There should be a sequence that you need to press to change it from one type of keyboard characters to another. Look for a key that has the symbol of a keyboard on it. Most likely this is the key that is causing you the problems. Typically you have to press the Function key that is near the space bar as well as the key with the symbol on it to change it from one character set to the other. Evey laptop keyboard is alittle different than the next when it comes to which keys are "functions keys", so you will have to examine your keyboard to find the correct key on you laptop.

Yes. Just go into your control panel and find "clock, language and region" area.
You can customize your keyboard for a specific language or format by changing the keyboard layout. The layout controls which characters appear on the screen when you press the keys on your keyboard. Some input languages have several keyboard layouts; others have only one. For example, you can change your keyboard layout from the English QWERTY format to the English Dvorak format. After you change the layout, the characters on your screen might not correspond to the characters on your keyboard keys.
Before you can change the keyboard layout, you must add the input language and keyboard layout that you want to use to Windows.

Hi.It seems that someone has changed your keyboard's language settings. All you need to to is go to Control Panel> Regional and Language Settings> Language tab and then click on Details button. Select English UK in the dropdown tab then apply the new settings. You will again get your keyboard type all characters correctly.Cheers!

I suggest this, of course if you'd like: you change the keyboard layout to English (if you want to use English), can be UK or US.Then you change what is written in the keyboard buttons with the correct one ("English" letters).I know much in Windows, in Linux frankly speaking I don't know much (Linux has too many types). I got from this site:http://wiki.eeeuser.com/howto:change_keyboard_layout_in_advanced_modehow to change the keyboard layout:
In Advanced Mode the default keyboard layout is set to the US.
These instructions inform KDE to use a different layout; for example
the UK.

You can find the international keyboard layout here (example for English US):http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#US

If your computer already set for English keyboard layout, if you push your button, it should follow that international keyboard layout. (can be with some small modification). You can just try out for each button.